Test 8 · ★★ · In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words
A school changed its rules about chatbots twice this year. What does this show?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school, this · What happens: change, rule, show · To what, where: rules
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 23 «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» of the AI course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A school changed its rules about chatbots twice this year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rules | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 chatbots | case |
| 7 | chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | obl |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 changed | advmod |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | a school | school's rules | year | about chatbots; twice property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | ||
| 2 | rule | school | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What does this show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Schools never think about AI
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 think | advmod |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 AI | case |
| 5 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present | Schools | about AI | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ai=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Pupils should choose their own rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | aux |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rules | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rules | amod |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | should | Pupils | Pupils's own rules | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | Pupils = pupil | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Schools are still working out what is best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 working | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 working | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 working | advmod |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 best | csubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 working | compound:prt |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 best | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 best | cop |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work out | present · progressive | Schools | still | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
Option 4
Rules about AI will never change again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 AI | case |
| 3 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rules | nmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 change | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 change | advmod |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 change | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | future | Rules about AI | again | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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